“Eight months after coping with the news that Ashton Kutcher would be playing Steve Jobs in an upcoming biopic of the late Apple founder, film and Apple fans are now beginning to grapple with the first official photo of Kutcher in character,” Julie Miller reports for Vanity Fair.

“Courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival, which, just moments ago, announced that jOBS — weird capitalization choice theirs, not ours — would premiere at this year’s festival, the photo shows the Two and a Half Men lead in a cubicle,” Miller reports. “Outfitted in a button-down shirt, jeans, and a goatee—Kutcher’s Jobs, who leans against a desk in front of a poster bearing the IBM slogan THINK—bears an eerie resemblance to a vintage photo of an actual Steve Jobs floating around on the Internet.”

MacDailyNews Take: It’d be funny if this one ends up being better than the “real” Sony Pictures film based on Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography adapted by Aaron Sorkin. Here’s hoping magic touches both films!

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]

There seems to be some confusion here between the concept of a usual, narrative motion picture and a re-enactment. This movie (jOBS), as well as the other (the one written by Sorkin) are works of fiction, with screenplays written by professional script writers. They both fall into the category of a “biopic” (biographical motion picture), where they are based on a true story about an actual person (living or dead). The primary goal of such films is to entertain the audience (and NOT to re-create and re-tell the life story of the subject as closely and as accurately as possible). Both films will likely claim to do exactly the latter (be accurate), but this is only for advertising purposes, so that they better accomplish the former (entertain audiences). Neither will actually be completely accurate, and the scripts in both will frequently veer from the real-life narrative wherever it is necessary, to make for better drama, in order to better entertain audiences.

I have no doubt that the Apple ultra-faithful will be sorely disappointed by the number of facts the film(s) got so totally wrong… and they’re bound to, otherwise, they would likely be much less entertaining.

Just got home and in the quiet of the room while I look at SJ’s picture just realized my earbuds are still playing music. Album named ‘Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd, track “Shine on you crazy diamond”. No Kidding!

It would matter little even if ‘Bugs Bunny’ had the starring role of Steve Jobs in the upcoming production, millions of theatre goers including myself would pay money to see his story on the big screen.